UNIT 7: DEVELOPING OWN PLAY WORK TEAM PRACTICE INTRODUCTION
Imagine a place where can you find challenge and security, thrills and relaxation, exploration and consolidation, mystery and understanding, fantasy and down to earth reality. For many children adventure playgrounds are just such places, not only giving them somewhere to relax and enjoy themselves but also providing opportunities that help them to develop the skills, knowledge and experience they need for living in our increasingly complex world.
Through play we learn those things that can’t be taught, explore our world at our own pace, try new skills until they are mastered. Play is so important in a child’s development that the opportunities for play we offer to children need to be of the highest quality. …show more content…
They demonstrate the richness of play and the complexity of play work. The examples show that quality play work depends more on the experience and understanding of the workers, and their commitment to the values and principles of play work, than on the amount of money spent on a project. This is the type of work that goes on at play projects all over London, and the stories show the reasoning, beliefs, commitment and imagination that underpin the development of the play environment and the people within it. Whatever your interest in play, be it as a child, parent, funder or worker then this selection of real life stories will shed some light on what play facilities offer, their worth to society, the enthusiasm that inspires them and the promise they hold for our
Imagine a place where can you find challenge and security, thrills and relaxation, exploration and consolidation, mystery and understanding, fantasy and down to earth reality. For many children adventure playgrounds are just such places, not only giving them somewhere to relax and enjoy themselves but also providing opportunities that help them to develop the skills, knowledge and experience they need for living in our increasingly complex world.
Through play we learn those things that can’t be taught, explore our world at our own pace, try new skills until they are mastered. Play is so important in a child’s development that the opportunities for play we offer to children need to be of the highest quality. …show more content…
They demonstrate the richness of play and the complexity of play work. The examples show that quality play work depends more on the experience and understanding of the workers, and their commitment to the values and principles of play work, than on the amount of money spent on a project. This is the type of work that goes on at play projects all over London, and the stories show the reasoning, beliefs, commitment and imagination that underpin the development of the play environment and the people within it. Whatever your interest in play, be it as a child, parent, funder or worker then this selection of real life stories will shed some light on what play facilities offer, their worth to society, the enthusiasm that inspires them and the promise they hold for our